Empathy Poem by Asit Kumar Sanyal

The empathy is essential for democracy
in India it is found in them
who understand the poor,
their poverty,
their compromise with essential needs
health, education, safety, sanitation
barrier of their dreams
and their restricted life
also it's essential
to have some experience
in surviving on Rs.26 per day,
the official 'poverty line income'
in village.

Do you think
our political leaders
who have taken birth by luck
in well-to-do family
with golden spoon in their mouth
and enjoy big bunglows in Delhi
have empathy?
they are policy makers,
so called game changers
and vowed to eradicate poverty
from the country
do you trust them?